So, they stink when they dance

With a state election just seven weeks away, West Australian Labor leader
Mark McGowan faces an uphill climb to oust everyone’s favourite Emperor,
Colin Barnett
. So the Prince could appreciate the smell of desperation as McGowan took his campaign to the state’s most marginal seat, Albany, which Labor holds by just 0.8 per cent.

Appearing on the morning show on RadioWest 783, McGowan was sweet-talked into dancing to viral K-Pop hit Gangnam Style, complete with mock horse-riding and choruses of “hey sexy lady".

He is not the first pollie to make a dill of himself through dance. Infamous attention-seeker
Kevin Rudd
tried a “Ruddnam style" version of the hit on Sunrise last year. And who can forget the sight of then-treasurer
Peter Costello doing the Macarena with
Kerri-Anne Kennerley live on air in 1996.

Perhaps McGowan hoped to emulate the success of Trade Minister
Craig Emerson, whose bizarre “Whyalla Wipe-out" musical number has clocked up almost 40,000 views on YouTube. A quick check of the RadioWest Facebook page shows McGowan’s moves have attracted just 12 “likes" so far.

Over in the Liberal camp, Emperor Barnett made a rare
Tony Abbott
-style blunder by seeming to admit it’s OK to be loose with the truth when you’re on FM radio. Save the solid facts for the wise listeners of talkback. And in a piece of nightmare timing for the Libs, Treasurer Troy “Sniffer" Buswell’s messy personal spat turned defamation suit against former lover and fellow MP Adele Carles will get an airing in court just three days before the March 9 election.